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Salomon Corrodi (23 April 1810 – July 4, 1892) was a
''Rocky Landscape''
(attributed to Corrodi).
Salomon Corrodi (23 April 1810 – July 4, 1892) was a Swiss
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-Italian painter, mainly of watercolor landscapes.
Biography
He was born inFehraltorf
Fehraltorf is a municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
History
Fehraltorf is first mentioned between 1265-87 as ''Rueggesaltorf'' and also as ''Altorf de Chiburg''. Around 1670 it was mentioned as ' ...
, the son of an Italian Protestant preacher living in Switzerland. Two of his sons, Hermann and Arnold, were also painters. A collection of his vedute has been published. He trained with Johann Jakob Wetzel (1781-1834), and came to Rome in 1832, along with his fellow pupil Jakob Suter (1805–1874), after visiting Genoa and Pisa. In Rome, he was influenced by the circle of Neoclassical artists around Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen (; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danes, Danish and Icelanders, Icelandic Sculpture, sculptor medallist, medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in ...
From notes regarding a watercolor of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli at tibursuperbum.it. He died in Como, Italy.
Notes
''Rocky Landscape''
(attributed to Corrodi).
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* * 1810 births 1892 deaths Swiss painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Swiss people of Italian descent 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub